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Gold Fever is the work of Lewis Mariano Nesbitt (The Hell Hole of Creation) who was killed last year in an airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
...consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want and pay for it and be God-guided all the time...
...half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President Gómez' inauguration was the result of a quiet, methodical two-year campaign for the Presidency. Last week, two days before inauguration, Miguel Mariano...
...dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump, dazzling wife. He proceeded quietly...
...Cubans thought this election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...